White Sox Have No Urgency to Extend Munetaka Murakami Amid Slump

The White Sox say there is “no urgency” to extend Munetaka Murakami amid a .107 skid over his last 29 games, per Bob Nightengale of USA Today.

The Chicago White Sox say there is “no urgency” to sign Munetaka Murakami to a contract extension amid his recent struggles, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today.

In his Sunday notebook, Nightengale reported that Chicago is not rushing a long-term deal while Murakami works through a brutal skid: .107 with 54 strikeouts in 103 at-bats over his last 29 games. That stretch has cooled the temperature on locking up the Japanese slugger after a power-packed first season on the South Side.

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GM Chris Getz has said publicly that the White Sox would love to keep Murakami long-term and that there have been conversations, with mutual interest. Nightengale’s latest reporting does not scrap that interest. It just puts a timeline on it: no rush while the bat is cold and a year remains on the original pact.

For now, Chicago is content to let the roster and extension picture breathe. Murakami still has time to finish strong, and the Sox still have leverage that disappears the moment he becomes a winter bidding war.